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  • HayPost Exhibition Of Stamps Dedicated To Armenian Genocide

    HAYPOST EXHIBITION OF STAMPS DEDICATED TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    15:19 22/04/2015 >> SOCIETY

    Within the framework of "Against the Crime of Genocide" Global Forum
    which takes place on April 22-23 at the Sports and Concerts Complex
    in Yerevan, Armenia, HayPost CJSC has organized an exhibition of
    Armenian stamps dedicated to the Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by
    the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1915.

    28 stamps and souvenir sheets exhibited during the event are dedicated
    to distinguished Armenian writers, poets, composers and public figures,
    victims of the Genocide, such as Siamanto, Daniel Varuzhan, Grigor
    Zohrap, Ruben Sevak, Komitas; as well as survivors of the Genocide
    (Aurora Mardiganian, orphans of Melkonian Educational Institute in
    Cyprus) as well as prominent figures who helped the survivors of the
    Armenian Genocide and defended the Armenian case, such as Johannes
    Lepsius, Fridtjof Nansen, James Bryce, Franz Werfel, Karen Jeppe,
    Maria Jacobsen, John Kirakossian.

    Within the framework of the events dedicated to the Centennial of the
    Armenian Genocide, "Haypost" CJSC will also officially cancel and put
    into circulation a postage stamp "Centennial of the Armenian Genocide;
    Anatole France" on April 23rd 2015, at 13:30, the press service of
    "Haypost" CJSC reports.

    http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2015/04/22/haypost/

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